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ProgramFriday February 1st Blumberg Reading Room 5:30-6:00 Reception 6:00-7:00 Dinner 7:00-8:00 Online Games Learning and Society, Constance Steinkuehler(approve sites) Saturday Morning, February 2nd Waidner-Spahr Library Shuttle 7:45 and 8:00 8:00-8:30 Breakfast 8:30-9:00 Why Games? | Britt Scharringhausen 9:15-9:45 Computer Games as a Learning Platform: Essential Elements | Richard Liston 10:00-10:30 Introduction to Modding | Todd Bryant 10:40-11:15 Break 11:15-11:45 Games as Language Learning Tools | Todd Bryant Lunch 12:00-2:00 Saturday Afternoon Bosler Hall Workshops Session I 2:00-3:00 Pedogical and Practical Issues, Discussion | Britt Scharringhausen Modding How To (Civilization IV) | Todd Bryant Session II 3:30-5:00 Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 | Richard Liston An Introduction to Virtual Worlds for Language Instruction | Todd Bryant Games in Bosler Hall 5:00-6:00 If people would like to stick around, I'd be happy to show the games we installed including: Peacemaker A Force More Powerful Palestine, Global Conflicts Civ IV Rome, Total War Age of Empires Hearts of Iron Bioshock (Foreign language) World of Warcraft (Foreign language) The Witcher (Foreign language) Sims 2 (Foreign language) Shuttle 6:15 and 6:30 Sunday Morning, February 3rd Waidner-Spahr Library Shuttle 8:45 and 9:00 9:00 Breakfast 10:00 - 12:00 Birds of a Feather - Participants with similar ideas for their institutions meet to discuss implementation, solutions for likely obstacles and possible points for collaboration. Shuttles leave from parking lot behind the library: 10, 12, and 2. Please bring your luggage to the library Sunday. |